on 7/20/2007 2:46 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 14:24 -0700, David Boles wrote: >> on 7/20/2007 2:12 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 16:30 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: >>>> Aaron Konstam wrote: >>>> http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd810/en/index.htm >>>> >>>> That took all of a few seconds to locate. :) >>> I have that manual but try to find the following in that manual:: >>> 1. What wifi card it has? >>> 2. What sound card it has? >>> 3. Any information about other compoonennts? >>> 4. What fn keys do? >>> 5. etc, etc, and so forth >>>> It took a few more seconds to google for lwifi card it has >>>> inux chm viewers, install >>>> gnochm (one of several available in the Fedora repos), and open the >>>> user guide. >>>> >>>> You're doomed if you expect tech support to be very useful. It's far >>>> easier to just search the site. >> This sounds like a really good argument to not buy a Dell computer 'of the >> shelf'. ;-) > No, Dell makes very good computers but you need to know what you are > doing. You can get a computer customized with a sticker made in Korea. > Well actually only the parts are made in Korea but they are assembled > here. You can get them to put any device card you want, and configure > other things. Therefore, there is no way they > can tell you what cards you have in your machine in a manual. > But if you just go with the default you can get screwed or surprised. > The first Dell I had was ordered with 1 gig drive, and sure enough in > Windows that is what showed. When I installed Linux I found it was a 2G > drive. They just substituted the larger drive because that is what they > had available. You did see the smiley ;-) didn't you Aaron? That's why I put there. I was trying to lighten the conversation with a little humor. > And to Tod the original post said I could find out which Wifi card I had > from the manual. My response was really meant to say that you can't all > the time. -- David
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
